My new pet catfish's little journey home!

**Plecoitis** · 22nd Apr 2012, 02:32

Hey guys! I got a new pet catfish today! Her (or well, I think it's a her anyway) name's Stacy, and she doesn't like me much, yet...

This is her in the shop:

And her boyfriend. He was too big for me to bring home too! More than twice her size:

So she got scooped up, quad bagged and placed into a big styrofoam box as such:

Heres her at the train station:

Waiting for the tram:

In the tram:

Home at last with Mr Skeleton, but still in her box:

Acclimatising in a little bucket:

Home sweet home!:

With some of her little friends:

Tadaa!:

Hope you guys enjoyed that! And I hope that Stacy will spend the next few decades living a happy life xD Sorry, all pictures were taken with iPhone3. Not exactly the best.

**ciaossu** · 22nd Apr 2012, 04:42

Hi, welcome to the forum. lovely catfish there.

**Skywalker** · 22nd Apr 2012, 14:24

Cool!~ you took photos of the whole journey home...

**felix_fx2** · 23rd Apr 2012, 08:18

Hi,

Welcome to the fourm. Good to see other hobbyist post such detailed "trips"

Oh, Stacy has nice tank mates.

**mincedmeat** · 23rd Apr 2012, 08:40

Wow! Just curious. Are the prices of the livestock in London (you look like you're now in London, or at least in the UK) comparable to the prices over here in Singapore?

**DragonBoyy** · 28th Apr 2012, 10:39

Stacy and her tank mates are very nice

**Lexz_10** · 4th May 2012, 08:21

Nice blue eye panaque. any update?

**CoOLMAn74** · 5th May 2012, 18:06

It must be a not easy trip back home, how long it takes to reach home? It's always interesting to learn about hobbist in other country experiences with their fishes

**Plecoitis** · 7th May 2012, 01:07

so sorry for the late reply everyone!

thanks for all the good comments!

Erm, I bought her for 400 pounds, 800 sing. Yeah, i know its a shedload of money and i'm not rich but... she's 8 inches! So thats like 100 sing per inch haha.

I'm from Singapore so I'll bring her back on the plane, I'm just wondering how to do that at the moment because on the way home she did rip the triple bag and water started coming out through the styrofoam box. The flight home is 14 hours + transit I have to be able to pack her for 24 hours.

This is a random video I took yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw4BuO315Ok The description of why I took the video is there too

ahha. It was a long arduous journey, but I got her home in the end!

**mincedmeat** · 8th May 2012, 08:43

Very nice discus you got there!

Anyway, I would advice you to take caution when bringing in livestock out and in to a country. Check with the immigration authorities on the procedures involved, both UK and Singapore. It's better that you do this than risk discarding your $800 pleco.

**stormhawk** · 8th May 2012, 14:12

I forgot to ask this, but is that a Panaque cochliodon?

**johannes** · 8th May 2012, 15:05

Yes it is bro, BEC, Blue Eyed Cochliodon..

**stuz** · 14th Jun 2012, 14:11

This fish is really cool! solid fish...

**teckwei** · 26th Aug 2012, 01:46

nice youtube video! did the discus fry manage to hatch or did Stacy intervene?

Stacy being a Panaque Cochliodon, isn't she aggresive?

I watched some youtube video on Panaque Cochliodon colliding with one another, or do they only behave this way to another of their own kind?

Are your L46 very scared of it?